Rope-holder.



PATENTED JUNE 11, 1907.

G. H. HERBERT.

ROPE HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 28,1905.

CHARLES H. HERBERT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ROPE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed November 28, 1905. Serial No. 289,455.

To LtZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HERBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rope-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a device adapted to be placed on a post, side of a building, or other fixed su port, and is intended to hold the end of a c othes line, wire, or other rope, two or more of the devices being usually employed.

The device consists of two parts, a bracket which is attached to the stationary object and a swiveled or pivoted part or cam lever for clamping or ho ling the rope, which may be inserted and tightened in the clamp in a few seconds time.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device showing a rope clamped in the same. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan. Fig. 3 is a side view showing the clamp tilted back and ready to receive the rope, and taken from the opposite side to that of Fig. 1.

Referring specifically to the drawings, is a post, wall, or other support. Secured to this is a bracket having a plate 11 having holes for screws or other means for attaching the plate to the support.

12 is an outwardly projecting supporting arm preferably integral with the plate 11 and having a hook-shaped end 12 which is adapted to surround the rope and keep the same in place against the cam lever 14. arm 12 has a slot 18 intowhich the pintle or pivot pin of the cam may be inserted, when in a suitable position. The hookedshaped part 12 of the arm 12 has on its inner side a V-shaped groove 12 adapted to engage the rope when inserted in same (see The Fig. 2). The cam 14 is a segmental plate or part having a pivotal bearing in the arm 12 of the bracket. This pivot pin 15 has a small lateral stud 15 which prevents the segment 14 being removed from the bracket eX- cept when in a certain position. The rim 14 of the segment has a groove 14. preferably V-shaped.

14 is an upwardly and rearwardly roject-, ing horn or hook formed at the back of the segment, and 14 is a small arm at the lower end which may be used in loosening the clamp when engaging the rope tightly.

In the use-of the device the cam 14 is turned up and back until its rim or clamping edge is distant from the hook 12 The free end of the rope is then inserted downwardly w thin the hook, the cam is then turned down to clamp the rope after which the part of the rope above the hook is then bent around the horn 14, after which pull on either the free end of the rope or the standing part thereof will tighten the clamp.

I claim:

A rope holder comprising an attaching plate, a slotted arm projecting at an angle therefrom and having a hook at its outer end, and a cam connected by a sliding pivot in the slot to the side of the arm between the hook and the plate and adapted to swing in a plane parallel to the arm behind the hook and to clamp a rope in said hook, said cam having an upwardly and rearwardly extending horn at its front end, projecting above the arm.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. HERBERT. 

